vi, 279 p. ; 24 cm

Excerpts from "Matt Hills interviews Harry Jenkins" -- Star trek rerun, reread, rewritten: fan writing as textual poaching -- "Normal female interest in men bonking": selections from the Terra nostra underground and Strange bedfellows / Shoshanna Green, Cynthia Jenkins -- "Out of the closet and into the universe": queers and Star trek / John Campbell -- "Do you enjoy making the rest of us feel stupid?": alt.tv.twinpeaks, the trickster author, and viewer mastery -- Interactive audiences? the "collective intelligence" of media fans -- Pop cosmopolitanism: mapping cultural flows in an age of media convergence -- Love online -- Blog this! -- A safety net -- Professor Jenkins goes to Washington -- Coming up next! ambushed on Donahue -- The war between effects and meanings: rethinking the video game violence debate -- The Chinese Columbine: how one tragedy ignited the Chinese government's simmering fears of youth culture and the internet -- "The monsters next door": a father-son dialogue about Buffy, moral panic, and generational differences / Henry G. Jenkins IV

Includes bibliographical references and index

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